Boiling your roots

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Hey 420 people,
Have you ever heard or tried to water your plants with boiling water when they are done? Quite curious how spread n known this practice is and if anyone else on here tried this?

This is going to be a standard procedure for me besides washing with H2O2. .

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Sounds crazy I'm interested in the outcome I hear of people washing there buds aswell all new to me

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The bud washing is one thing. I compared it last grow side by side just like the boiling. I had 4 plants, i boiled the roots of 3 plants 3 days before harvest and after i seperated the branches i washed them in a mild hydrogenperoxide solution, after that in baking soda and lemon juice solution and after that 2 buckets of destilled water. Every bucket got its minute for cleaning off the dust, residue and ol sweat from the plants having me swirling the branches around in it. The first bucket also kills every tiny spore of mold, bortytis and stuff like that you didnt even saw was there.so you have that benefit too. As far as i know H2O2 seperates simply Water and Oxygen, so if you do not use a overdose it wont do any harm. The crop is potent so it prooves for me that its no harm when done right.

Well, the water in the first bucket was not clear any more and still some minor stuff swimming in bucket number two.

The boiled plants are curing much faster, actually they start to cure due to the early start of carbolysation while they are alive and it continues after they die. You can see them sucking almost every green out of the leafes like the flash in the days after the boil within 2 or 3 days.

It is like a simulated flood when the root system is complety drowned and cut off oxygen. Tha plant needs to eat up themself because there is no more transportation of nutes from the ground.

The buds look and taste like 3 weeks curing in mason jars just after 5 days of drying with these 2 easy methods. Because of the H2O2 it dries faster and more even too without any bad taste of regulary weed dried too fast. No effect on the taste. Just needed some balls i guess to do this crazy stuff on my plants, but i will definately do this again for my entire crops.


Oops, forgot a thing. They were fed with mineral/chem fertilizers till 5 days before harvest and only got flushed with one gallon of boiling water like i said. Still one the smoothest weeds ive ever inhaled.

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Sounds interesting, I have only heard about placing ice around plant stem in the last day or so, to make it shoot up all the goodies to the buds. I haven't tried it, so I can't say it works
 
Yes. I think this is kind of a myth even a friend of mine claiming an older grower he knows putts his plants in a cooling house over nights when they are in flower. At least 3 times. and swears by it. I just dont know it it is possible that the plant can produce more fully developed thc in the last cpl days. Maybe. I have ice watered an entire crop and left it in darkness 3 days. Still not shure if id did what i was hoping. But this stuff i described her works for shure.
 
I was told to do this way back before hydro, the theory was the plant is instantly killed and doesn't waste energy trying to come back and goes into protection mode sending everything to the buds to protect the flowers (that the plant does to protect seeds). This was a bloke who always grew some wicked weed outdoors.
 
Another of the old threads with most of the participants now long gone. @AngryBird still stops by but the rest are no longer coming around.

I was told to do this way back before hydro, the theory was the plant is instantly killed...
I have heard about boiling the roots but it seems to be another of those theories that has gone no where.

The roots are instantly killed but the portion above the roots is still alive for days. Instead of going through all the hassle of getting the plant out of the soil or hydroponic set-up how about just cutting the branches off the main stem. Accomplishes the same thing without the messy boiled roots.

...and goes into protection mode sending everything to the buds to protect the flowers...
If the root system has been killed then the plant cannot send anything to the buds. It is the roots that provide the water that is then used to move everything from where the plant has stored it up to the buds.

The hydraulic properties, hydraulic pressures, the plant's vascular system and the movement of nutrients involved in plant growth have been discussed many times over the past few years on this message board.

As far as I am able to figure the idea of boiling the roots is nothing more than another way to use up time without any reward.
 
I was told to do this way back before hydro, the theory was the plant is instantly killed and doesn't waste energy trying to come back and goes into protection mode sending everything to the buds to protect the flowers (that the plant does to protect seeds). This was a bloke who always grew some wicked weed outdoors.
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Hmm I have experimented with many forms of things like this,I can't say all of these type methods are a myth because the plants do respond, just not in the way we expect or want. The effects I've seen are almost certainly plant specific,some genetics react differently to different things. The most effective I've seen is the ice water and low temps and the other was scarification combined w drought. I'm very curious to try the 48hrs of veg lighting at end of harvest !! Have y'all tried this aswell yet?
 
Hmm I have experimented with many forms of things like this,I can't say all of these type methods are a myth because the plants do respond, just not in the way we expect or want. The effects I've seen are almost certainly plant specific,some genetics react differently to different things. The most effective I've seen is the ice water and low temps and the other was scarification combined w drought. I'm very curious to try the 48hrs of veg lighting at end of harvest !! Have y'all tried this aswell yet?
I actually turn my lights off for 24 hrs before chop.
It increases the tric size.



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Bill284 😎
 
Another of the old threads with most of the participants now long gone. @AngryBird still stops by but the rest are no longer coming around.


I have heard about boiling the roots but it seems to be another of those theories that has gone no where.

The roots are instantly killed but the portion above the roots is still alive for days. Instead of going through all the hassle of getting the plant out of the soil or hydroponic set-up how about just cutting the branches off the main stem. Accomplishes the same thing without the messy boiled roots.


If the root system has been killed then the plant cannot send anything to the buds. It is the roots that provide the water that is then used to move everything from where the plant has stored it up to the buds.

The hydraulic properties, hydraulic pressures, the plant's vascular system and the movement of nutrients involved in plant growth have been discussed many times over the past few years on this message board.

As far as I am able to figure the idea of boiling the roots is nothing more than another way to use up time without any reward.
I don't go to the trouble of pulling the whole plant out I just boil some water and pour it into the tub and leave it to do its thing. after an hour or so I cut it at the main stem and hang it. I have only just started back on the voyage after a 15 year break. But just thought what have I got to lose trying it.
I did also try guano with silica and will try seaweed extract as it is considered to stress the plant at the end.
I am just going on information from a guy that was our guru at the time and had the balls to just go hell for leather.
I doubt he boiled the roots for the last one I seen him grow I wasn't there, but it was eleven feet high, it is easy and cheap to eliminate as an option is it not?
After mine has cured in a month or so I will revisit and inform of the outcome if there is any at all. Cost me nothing to try.
I will be trying ice water next and ice and twenty four hour lighting for a couple of days next time.
Just playing around and can't believe how far the whole hydro movement has come.
 
I don't go to the trouble of pulling the whole plant out I just boil some water and pour it into the tub and leave it to do its thing. after an hour or so I cut it at the main stem and hang it. I have only just started back on the voyage after a 15 year break. But just thought what have I got to lose trying it.
I did also try guano with silica and will try seaweed extract as it is considered to stress the plant at the end.
I am just going on information from a guy that was our guru at the time and had the balls to just go hell for leather.
I doubt he boiled the roots for the last one I seen him grow I wasn't there, but it was eleven feet high, it is easy and cheap to eliminate as an option is it not?
After mine has cured in a month or so I will revisit and inform of the outcome if there is any at all. Cost me nothing to try.
I will be trying ice water next and ice and twenty four hour lighting for a couple of days next time.
Just playing around and can't believe how far the whole hydro movement has come.
 
I actually turn my lights off for 24 hrs before chop.
It increases the tric size.



Stay safe
Bill284 😎
Yes I def have done and seen the results of this method,I have gone as far as 3 days dark before(do not recommend) but I started seeing strange stuff at like 36 + hrs so 24 prob perfect.

Have you heard of this 24 hrs to 48 hrs veg lighting at end ? Supposed to increase production of trichomes n none primary chems?

I was thinking 🤔 wat if I do 24 hrs veg lighting then do 24 hrs dark n low temp then harvest ? Have you heard of anyone trying something like that ? I bet combining these 2 methods could be promising ?
 
I don't go to the trouble of pulling the whole plant out I just boil some water and pour it into the tub and leave it to do its thing. after an hour or so I cut it at the main stem and hang it. I have only just started back on the voyage after a 15 year break. But just thought what have I got to lose trying it.
I did also try guano with silica and will try seaweed extract as it is considered to stress the plant at the end.
I am just going on information from a guy that was our guru at the time and had the balls to just go hell for leather.
I doubt he boiled the roots for the last one I seen him grow I wasn't there, but it was eleven feet high, it is easy and cheap to eliminate as an option is it not?
After mine has cured in a month or so I will revisit and inform of the outcome if there is any at all. Cost me nothing to try.
I will be trying ice water next and ice and twenty four hour lighting for a couple of days next time.
Just playing around and can't believe how far the whole hydro movement has come.
Yea the way it's exploded is crazy,I love to see it. Some of it is extra for sure but alot of bro science is onto something lol The cold water n low temp 👌 big reaction to appearance depending on genetics,n brings out the frost but u gotta start earlier than than 24 hrs for best effect,phase it into your water routine, drop temps every water then ice water towards end,start process about a week before chop and tell me what you think
 
I am considering uv lights at the end to stimulate trichomes production as apparently it is the sunscreen of the plant, but caution is needed not to overdo it and burn the plant.
Sorry but this is a great idea also !! Uv light in combo with drought stress is 👌 aswell!! I would try giving it thru entire flower maybe even veg in lower doses ofc
 
Yes I def have done and seen the results of this method,I have gone as far as 3 days dark before(do not recommend) but I started seeing strange stuff at like 36 + hrs so 24 prob perfect.

Have you heard of this 24 hrs to 48 hrs veg lighting at end ? Supposed to increase production of trichomes n none primary chems?

I was thinking 🤔 wat if I do 24 hrs veg lighting then do 24 hrs dark n low temp then harvest ? Have you heard of anyone trying something like that ? I bet combining these 2 methods could be promising ?
It sounds like a worthwhile endeavor.
I’d be interested in your results.
It would be nice to grow a few of the same strain then try different methods at harvest.
Even comparison.



Stay safe
Bill284 😎
 
It sounds like a worthwhile endeavor.
I’d be interested in your results.
It would be nice to grow a few of the same strain then try different methods at harvest.
Even comparison.



Stay safe
Bill284 😎
I will have a continuous harvest up n running soon so I'll be able to do a fairly controlled experiment soon enough. It's really been nagging me,it just makes perfect sense right ? They compliment each other!
 
I will have a continuous harvest up n running soon so I'll be able to do a fairly controlled experiment soon enough. It's really been nagging me,it just makes perfect sense right ? They compliment each other!
I agree.
I might try something myself.
Great idea. :thumb:


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Bill284 😎
 
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